Happy Sunday! I spent this past week in Las Vegas at the 20BooksVegas conference. It’s a huge, very well planned and organized conference specifically for indie authors of all sorts. I will admit to not always being the first person to volunteer for conferences. A large part of this is simply that conferences tend to […]

Happy Sunday! Today I’m going to be spending my afternoon packing for a trip to Las Vegas for a writer’s conference. (Although I leave late enough in the day tomorrow that I could put it off. I guess we’ll see ;) ). I’m super excited about this conference – not completely because of what I […]

I love November. Growing up in the mountains, November (or sometimes half-way through October) was when we started getting snow in earnest. Here in Virginia, it’s when the heat and humidity finally admit that they will not be making a return until spring. (Or February, at least. Because it seems like there’s always a few […]

Yesterday, my sister and I hopped in the car and headed up to Boonsboro, Maryland. If you read secular romance, you probably recognize this as the town that Nora Roberts lives in and has several businesses. One of these businesses is a bookstore. And yesterday, that bookstore was having a signing. These happen two or […]

Do you ever feel like the days start to speed up during the fall? It feels that way to me sometimes — this week was one where it seems like I blinked and suddenly we were back to needing to polish up the Sunday Edition and get ready to start with a whole new week. […]

This was a long and weird week. I guess because I was down for the count for most of it, which always makes things hard. I’m blessed to have a hubby who is generally able to take time off to step in and be “mom” for me when I’m out. I know a lot of […]

Happy October! I always enjoy having the chance to spend Sundays with y’all and give you the run down on all our general administrative news. This month, my header images will be featuring scenes from a train trip my family took mid-September through a lovely scenic valley in West Virginia. The valley is home to […]

  Happy fall. I hope the temperatures are cooler where you are than they are here in Alabama. Our forecast for the week is in the 90s. ALL WEEK. And sadly, no significant amount of rain. We are nearly three inches in deficit for the month of September, mostly because it hasn’t rained all month. […]

  My mom would have turned 90 today. She’s been gone for 17 years. I don’t miss her as much as I used to, but there are days that still get me. Today is usually one of them. I’d like to think she’d be proud of my family and my writing. She didn’t live to […]